Director of Intersos Greece: ” The Pope’s visit to Lesbos is very important, it will remind refugees in the world ”

” It is very important ” the visit that Pope Francis will make on the island of Lesbos, the second after that of 2016 to the refugee camp of Moria. ” It is very important to remind the world that children, women and men remain confined in the camps ” that ” in the camps they are deprived of dignity and security ”. The head of the mission of Intersos in Greece, Apostolos Veizis, said to Adnkronos, saying he hopes “that the Pope’s visit will shed more light on a chronic problem and we hope it will end soon”. Meanwhile, remember, ” it will be the second winter that people will spend in the Moria 2.0 camp. Today 2,119 of the 2,340 people on the island of Lesbos live there. ” Head of a mission that deals with providing assistance to vulnerable women living in the Moria camp, 75 percent of whom said they survived gender-based violence, Veizis explains that “ the authorities worked on her visit and we see changes in the field of Moria 2.0. I wish he could come more often so those camps would no longer exist, ” he added. ” Europe must end the policies of push-backs, containment, prisons and fences. The European Union must show solidarity and protection to asylum seekers, it must show solidarity with Greece, ” added Veizis. Doing it ” is possible! ”, He says, stating that ” we are not facing a refugee crisis, but we are facing a crisis of lack of political will ”. Veizis then stated that “the European Union has the resources to integrate these people into our societies.” Explaining how Intersos operates, Veizis explains that “it is important to note that most of the women” assisted by the NGO in the field refugees from Moria ” survived sexual violence in their countries of origin, while traveling or in Greece ”, but ” they never disclosed to any authority the episodes of violence suffered. Often the psychologists or the workers of Intersos are the first people to whom the survivors reveal the violence suffered ”.